These were some of my favorite poems as a kid, and still are, really:
The Jabberwocky and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' by Lewis Carroll.
The Giving Tree or Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
O Captain my Captain and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman.
The Raven and The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe.
maggie and milly and molly and may and 'since feeling is first' by e e cummings.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson.
Let America be America Again and A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes.
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas.
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Three Little Kittens by Eliza Lee Follen.
Dutch Lullaby (Winken, Blinken and Nod) by Eugene Field.
Anything by Ogden Nash ( such as: The trouble with a kitten
is that eventually
it becomes a cat.)
The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess.
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore by William Brighty Rands.
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Tyger by William Blake.
Thanksgiving Day (Over the River and Through the Wood) by Lydia Maria Child.
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
Fog by Carl Sandburg.
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams.
The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden.
Robert Frost's Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Shakespeare's Sonnett 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day).
For whom the bell tolls by John Donne.
If and Hiawatha by Rudyard Kipling.
How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
What are your favorites?
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